Notes
On the making of the book
Short essays on the ideas the novel is built from — perception and proof, memory as testimony, and the clinical voice that carries the dread. RSS.
The Chart and the Complaint
Clinical language usually keeps a doctor calm. In The Dean of Lucifer it becomes dread — the colder the record, the worse the thing it holds at arm's length.
The Proof You Cannot Show
The most frightening thing in the novel is not a presence. It is the moment a man perceives something true and cannot prove it — to anyone, including himself.
Why a Novel in Episodes
The serial form is not a marketing choice for The Dean of Lucifer. It is the book's method — a dated entry, and then another, until the pattern shows.